Zootaxa 4052 (4): 478–478 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Correspondence ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2015 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.5 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F9E70CD2-F6A8-4F18-BB98-F08977236E2B Rukavisсhnikovia, a new replacement name for preoccupied Iliella Rukavishnikova, 1980 (Brachiopoda) non Tschernyshev, 1940 (Crustacea) ALEXANDER B. DOWELD National Institute of Carpology (Gaertnerian Institution), 21 Konenkowa Street, RUS-127560, Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]. The generic name Iliella was proposed by Rukavischnikova (Nikitin & al., 1980: 71; type species I. minima Rukavischnikova, by original designation) for a new fossil brachiopod genus from the Upper Ordovician (Katian: Chokparian horizon) of the north of Dulankara mountains (Southern Kazakhstan, Central Asia). However, this name is already preoccupied by a fossil branchiopod generic name Iliella Tschernyschev (1940: 12, 32), which is in current use (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Ketmeniidae Novozhilov, 1957), described from the Lower Jurassic deposits of Ketmen’ mountains of Central Asia. To resolve homonymy, in accordance with article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), Rukavischnikovia nom. nov. (type species Iliella minima Rukavischnikova, 1980) is here proposed as a replacement name for Iliella Rukavischnikova non Tschernyschev, honoring Tatiana Borisovna Rukavischnikova (Татьяна Борисовна Рукавишникова), eminent Russian (formerly Soviet) palaeontologist and brachiopod authority. Systematics Phylum Brachiopoda Duméril 1806 Class Rhynchonellata Williams et al. 1996 Order Spiriferida Waagen 1883 Genus Rukavischnikovia gen. nov. (= Iliella Rukavischnikova non Tschernyschev, 1940) Type species. Rukavischnikovia minima (Rukavischnikova) comb. nov. (= Iliella minima Rukavischnikova in Nikitin & al., 1980: 72, tab. 21, figs 12-18, 23, text-fig. 10). Holotype: 257/11678 [Central Scientific-Research Geological Exploration Museum after S. N. Chernyshev (CNIGRMuseum), S.-Petersburg, Russian Federation]. Stratum typicum: Upper Ordovician (Katian = Chokparian horizon). Locus typicus: Oysu creek, Anzhar river, Dulankara mountains, Southern Kazakhstan. Diagnosis. See Rukavschnikova (in Nikitin et al., 1980: 72). Remarks. It should be noted that this brachiopod genus was inadvertently omitted from the revised Brachiopod Treatise. References Nikitin, I.F., Popov, L.E., Rukavischnikova, T.B. [Никитин, И.Ф., Попов, Л.Е., Рукавишникова, Т.Б.] (1980) Описание фауны. Класс Articulata. Замковые брахиоподы [Description of Fauna. Class Articulata. Brachiopoda]. In: Bandaletov, S.M. (Ed.), The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in Kazakhstan [Граница ордовика и силура в Казахстане]. Izdatel’stvo “Nauka” Kazakhskoj SSR, Alma-Ata, pp. 37–74. [in Russian] Novozhilov, N.I. (1957) Un nouvel ordre d'arthropodes particuliers: Kazacharthra du Lias des Monts Ketmen (Kazakhstan S. E., U.R.S.S.). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Serie 6, 7, 171–184. Tschernyschev, B.I. [Чернышев, Б.И.] (1940) Мезозойске Branchiopoda из Туркестана и Забайкалья [Mesozoic Branchiopoda from Turkestan and Transbaikal]. Geologicheskii Zhurnal, 7 (3), 5–46. [in Russian] 478 Accepted by D. Lee: 17 Oct. 2015; published: 4 Dec. 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0.